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...years later, Franzen's unhappiness about the state of fiction led him to publish a 15,000-word essay in Harper's magazine in which he pondered whether the serious novel could survive in a culture consumed by television, movies and the Web. "Where to find the energy," he asked, "to engage with a culture in crisis when the crisis consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture?" It seemed hopeless to think of the novel as a medium that would change the world. The world wasn't paying that kind of attention. But Franzen refused to give...
Like your critic James Poniewozik [ESSAY, Aug. 20], I am a hipster from the '80s who took pride in my knowledge of alternative rock. I proudly bought import records at the "cool" record stores and knew all about the right bands and songs. And though I genuinely liked the music, I also liked what it wasn't: accessible. People like me are the ones who now get to put that music in movies and commercials. But in doing so, we've taken away the edge, the hipness in simply knowing it. Somewhere, right now, a 15-year-younger version...
Having spent nearly two months hospitalized for three major abdominal surgeries, I can identify with Garrison Keillor and his description of his slow recovery from major surgery [ESSAY, Aug. 13]. When we do survive an operation and undergo a long recovery process, we realize how truly wonderful life is. Our selective thinking processes alter in deciding what is important and what is not. We learn to live with what we have, even if it is not what we want. These are revelations that make the hospital experience almost worthwhile. I compare it with my military service when I was drafted...
...Mission, which earned To last year's Hong Kong Film Award as best director, convened five gunmen as bodyguards for a powerful boss. Swift, spare and violent, with bullet ballets staged in deserted malls, the film played like The Seven Samurai (minus two) in Alphaville. It was another To essay on a man's dedication to the work ethic, no matter what line of work he's in. For cine-philes everywhere, The Mission offered proof that the Heroic Bloodshed genre had not died out with the emigration to the U.S. of John Woo, Tsui Hark and Ringo...